Holder for hats, coats, and umbrellas.



PATENTED AW. 18. 3

, P. HUPELAND.

HOLDER FOR HATS, COATS, AND UMBRELLAS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 30, 1902.

NOIODEL.

INVENTO R f izi bfi flland ATTORNEY or umbrella.

UNITED STATES Patented August 1a, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP HU'FELAND, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,731, dated August 18, 1903. Application filed August 30. 1902. Serial N0.121 ,687. (No model.)

To (all whom, it may concern.-

. Be it known that I, PHILIP HUFELAND, a citizen of the United States, residing in Manhattan borough, New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Im provements in Holders for Hats, Coats, and Umbrellas, of which the following is a specification.

By means of this invention articlesas, for example, apparel or the like, hats, coats, umbrellas, and so oncan be secured against loss or theft. The article being suitably suspended or put in a designated placeas, for example, the coat-room of a hotel or diningroom-can be secured by the owner, to be retaken on his return.

Thisinvention is set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a side elevation of the device closed. Fig. 2shows the same open. Fig. 3 is a section along 656, Fig. 1-. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the portion for holding a cane Fig. 5 is a section along y y, Fig. l.

In the drawings is shown a support or baseplate a, which can be suitably seen red .to a wall or other locality and which carries a housing hand a hook 0, onto which a hat and coat or the like can be hung. A. lever d is made to coact with or be locked to the hook for securing the articles thereon. The lever is shown as being of approximately inverted- U form, thereby to give room for accommodating a hat-brim when securing the hat can be formed integral with or secured to a fulcrum part or block d,'having a tailpiece d". The fulcrum-pin e is mounted in housing b. The opening-spring), hitched to hook or tail d, tends to contract to pull or move the lever to releasing position away from hook c. When pressed to closing position, aspringtongue of a latch g snaps into a recess of the fulcrum-block d of the lever to hold the latter locked to the clothes-hook c. When the latch is unlocked, for which purpose a key is to be employed, the spring causes the lever to swing free from the hook. The key of course is kept in suitable custody, say, by the proprietor oi the articles when the latter are on the holding device.

A clasp 7; is adapted to secure an umbrella, and the latter can at the same be allowed to rest in or over-a drip vessel; but such vessel forms no part of the invention. V

A slide-rod 2' actuat-es the jaws. The latter normally open, and a spring can be suitably employed for this purpose to normally spread the jaws. Say the lever is closed. Then the slide-rod 1', connected to tail d, is drawn alongguide-t-ube 7c, and the jaws 72, being drawn more or less into the tube are pressed shut to clasp or secure therebetween the handle of an umbrella or cane. In. the lower part of tube It is shown a diaphragm serving to guide or steady the rod.

A hat, coat, and stick or handle of an umbrella 0r cane are indicated at Z m n.

The device can be of the coin-actuatemselfpaying, or slot machine class; but this is immaterial to the invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure .by Letters Patent, is

1. A hanger or holding device comprising a hook, a lever cooperative with the hook, a

rod connected with the lever and having an ascending and descending movement as the lever is moved toward and from the hook, a pair of jaws connected with said rod and one of them being movable toward and from its companion, and a fixed device cooperative with the jaws and adapted to lock the same as they ascend with the movable rod with which they are connected. against removal from the hook. The lever 2. A hanger or holding device comprisinga book, a lever cooperative with said hook, a rod connected with said lever and having an ascending and descending movement as the lever is moved toward and from the hook, a

pair of pivoted jaws connected with said rod, fixed means for looking the jaws as the rod ascends, and independent means for automatically opening the jaws as the rod descends.

3. A hanger or holding device comprising a book, a lever cooperative therewith having a notched fulcrum-block, a casing within which the fulcrum-block is mounted, a key-operated latch in the casing for entering the notch in the fulcrum-block, a tube cooperative with provided with jaws, and a tube in which the i the casing, a member incased by the tube slide is guided and by which the jaws are and connected with said fulcrum-block for closed. ascending and descending movement as the I In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 15 5 lever is moved toward and from the hook,-and my hand in the presence of two subscribing pivoted jaws connected with said ascending witnesses. and descending member and adapted-to be closed by entering the lower end of said tube. 4. A hanger or holding device comprising a re hook, a lever, a lock and opening-spring for the levena slide actuated by the leverand PHILIP HUFELAND.

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